Digital BW, The Print

Marti - Your best hope lies in finding a photographer in your area who
specializes in photographing artwork, and who has also gone digital.  I'm in
Massachusetts, otherwise I'd help you out.  It's important to photograph
graphite works with polarizing filters on the lights and lens of the camera
used, film or digital.  Sometimes you can scan graphite drawings directly,
if the are small enough; you can then edit the resulting digital file to
make sure that the lines are not washed out, etc.

The digital file, once created directly or via scanning of film, can be
printed using high-quality pigments and papers so that you end up with
something that looks very much like the original, and which will last.  It
may not be cheap, but the quality will be better than that of the offset
lithography approach.  I'm assuming that you want to make a limited number
of quality prints; the beauty of this approach is that you can make a small
number to start out with and print more when and if you need them instead of
having to have a run of hundreds by offset lithography to make it affordable
on a per-piece basis.

Stephen Petegorsky
petegorsky@...
web site - www.spphoto.com